[lbo-talk] Bush Hints That U.S. Might Not Reduce Troops in Iraq

[mike larkin]

> 
> The scenario of turning Iraq into three
> "Afghanistans" is probably 
> the only one that would allow Bush to scale back the
> Iraqi operation 
> and diminish reports of US casualties quickly, as
> Max Sawicky and 
> Martin van Creveld suggest.  The scenario is not a
> very attractive 
> one for Bush, however, as the Arab masses would
> definitely interpret 
> any scaling back of the US occupation as a US
> defeat.
> 
> Yoshie
> 

But of course, they don't really care what the Arab
masses think. Their only concern is what the U.S.
public and the U.S. media think. Both are easily bamboozled.

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